Scott Neuman

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How a political standoff trapped hundreds of migrants at the Belarus-Poland border

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The crisis appears to be stoked by the leader of Belarus over the country's tensions with the bloc. Polish border guards have used water cannons and tear gas to turn back stone-throwing migrants.

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A Russian missile creates enough space junk to pose risk to astronauts for years

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

The U.S. condemned the test, which blasted a cloud of debris into orbit, forcing astronauts aboard the ISS to spend two hours inside spacecraft that could return them to Earth in an emergency.

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Austria and Germany impose restrictions on unvaccinated people as COVID cases surge

Monday, November 15, 2021

Austria has placed some 2 million unvaccinated people on partial lockdown. Similar restrictions in Berlin have been placed on people who aren't fully vaccinated.

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New Zealand Maori tribe demands vaccine protesters stop performing haka dance

Monday, November 15, 2021

The Ngati Toa, a Maori tribe whose version of the intimidating display has been popularized by New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team, says it supports COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Europe and Russia battle a new wave of COVID-19

Friday, November 12, 2021

More lockdowns are in the offing, as Germany and Austria shatter daily case counts and Russia has become become the world leader in new COVID-19 deaths.

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Julian Assange wins permission to marry his partner in a London prison

Friday, November 12, 2021

The WikiLeaks founder and attorney Stella Moris began a relationship after Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012. They have two sons together.

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Zombie river? London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming back to life

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Oxygen levels, necessary for fish, are up and dangerous phosphorus levels are down in the historically polluted waterway. But a new report points to climate change as a possible wildcard.

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Draft agreement at the COP26 climate summit looks to rapidly speed up emissions cuts

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

The draft, circulated at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, calls for an end to coal power and more rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

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A North Carolina city begins to reckon with the massacre in its white supremacist past

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

In 1898, a white supremacist mob burned the offices of Wilmington's Black-owned newspaper and gunned down scores of the city's African American residents. Now, the city is honoring some of the dead.

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Rebels are closing in on Ethiopia's capital. Its collapse could bring regional chaos

Sunday, November 07, 2021

A newly formed rebel alliance led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front is within striking distance of Addis Ababa. A failed state could displace millions of people and stoke more ethnic violence.

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Latest climate pledges could limit global temperature rise, a new report says

Friday, November 05, 2021

The International Energy Agency says that if nations honor their latest pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures could be held to 1.8 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

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Earth has 11 years to cut emissions to avoid dire climate scenarios, a report says

Thursday, November 04, 2021

Carbon dioxide emissions are rebounding after a dip in 2020, and researchers say that at the current rate, Earth's "carbon budget" will be exhausted in roughly 11 years.

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The U.N. says all sides in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict may have committed war crimes

Wednesday, November 03, 2021

An investigation released a year after the start of violence over the breakaway region of Ethiopia has compiled evidence of summary executions, torture and rape.

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There have been so many Atlantic storms this year, forecasters have run out of names

Tuesday, November 02, 2021

A particularly active Atlantic hurricane season has left no more names on the official list for the year. Forecasters had expected between 13 and 20 storms, but the newly formed Wanda makes 21.

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Nations with 85% of Earth's forests pledge to reverse deforestation

Tuesday, November 02, 2021

More than 100 countries have pledged to reverse the loss of crucial forestland needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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The largest municipal force in the U.S. has thousands on unpaid leave over vaccines

Monday, November 01, 2021

About 9,000 New York city employees are on unpaid leave for failing to heed Mayor Bill de Blasio's Oct. 20 vaccine mandate.

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The U.N. chief warns that reliance on fossil fuels is pushing the world to the brink

Monday, November 01, 2021

At the opening of a United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, António Guterres says the world is "digging our own grave" by not acting more aggressively to mitigate climate change.

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Scientists tracked a mysterious signal in space. Its source was closer to Australia

Saturday, October 30, 2021

A mysterious signal that appeared to be emanating from Proxima Centauri put scientists on a hunt to track down its source. What they found was that it had a decidedly earthbound origin.

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Biden, Pope Francis discuss climate change and global vaccine sharing

Friday, October 29, 2021

President Biden's meeting at the Vatican with the pope is one of several gatherings scheduled with global leaders over the next week.

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American Airlines plane is diverted after a passenger assaults a flight attendant

Thursday, October 28, 2021

The man's unwillingness to wear a mask triggered the assault, a witness said, and forced the cross-country flight to land in Denver. The female flight attendant was reportedly punched in the face.

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